Ram Dass

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found _x000D_ that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

The gift you offer another person is just your being.

Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. _x000D_ _x000D_ In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. _x000D_ _x000D_ When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.